端木同学在阳光明媚的加州度过愉快的一周，并确认了两件很重要的事情。其中之一就是决定成为“第三类人” ：P
分享一下端木同学觉得很有趣的网站，all about statistics~
FlowingData
http://flowingdata.com/
a cool blog about data. run by a PhD candidate at UCLA
Wordle
http://www.wordle.net/
"Wordle is a toy for generating 'word clouds' from text that you provide."
The font size of the text is based upon the frequency of the word appearing in the provided document.
GapMinder
http://www.gapminder.org/
"Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view."
TED -- Ideas worth spreading
http://www.ted.com/
"Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world"
In particular, check this out:
Hans Rosling shows the best stats you've ever seen
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en ... u_ve_ever_seen.html
Netflix Prize
http://www.netflixprize.com/
"The Netflix Prize seeks to substantially improve the accuracy of predictions about how much someone is going to love a movie based on their movie preferences. Improve it enough and you win one (or more) Prizes. Winning the Netflix Prize improves our ability to connect people to the movies they love. "
The BellKor Team from AT&T won ,000 Progress Prizes in 2007 and 2008 as part of the Netflix Prize competition, a M open competition to build the best recommendation algorithm using Netflix data.
http://www.research.att.com/~volinsky/netflix/
